Thursday, March 10, 2016

Python > Matlab?

I find myself substituting Python (+Numpy+SciPy+SymPy) for applications, where I would have whipped out some quick Matlab/Octave code in the past. By no means do I consider myself a skilled python programmer, but almost everything I used to do in Octave/Matlab, I can do in python; and very often I can do it better.

As an analogy, Matlab is like an applicant who has a very high score on the quantitative section of the SAT; while Python is like an applicant who is nearly as good on quant, but also has excellent verbal, and writing skills.